Jiang Wangzu felt a chill in his heart when he heard this.
He was not pleased that someone else was taking the blame for him; instead, he felt wave after wave of cold.
If Chen Tai was not extraordinarily stupid, he would never suspect that Chen Xing's murderer came from Lan Society's Xinglong Street.
The two sides had clashed constantly during this period. After they ceased hostilities, Xinglong Street even gained some advantage.
They would have to be insane to continue provoking Chen Tai.
Yet Chen Tai focused his suspicions on Xinglong Street at once.
Jiang Wangzu felt that even if Chen Tai had smoked too much opium, he should not have become this muddle-headed.
Therefore, Chen Tai had no intention of ceasing hostilities.
He was still looking for an opportunity to strike at Xinglong Street.
And Chen Xing's death was the perfect opportunity.
“Fuck!”
“He even has to make use of his own cousin's death.”
“What a beast!”
Jiang Wangzu cursed inwardly.
“Since the identity has been confirmed, deal with the body as soon as possible to prevent anything ominous from happening.”
Li Lei, the Patrol Office Squad Leader responsible for the Longjiang Wharf area, glanced at Chen Xing's corpse with profound distaste and spoke.
“Old Qin... Old Qin died a few days ago after something went wrong while stitching a corpse. This time, take the body to Little Luo and have him burn it.”
“That kid may be taciturn, but I don't think his skill is inferior to Old Qin's.”
Li Lei added.
He did not exchange pleasantries with Chen Tai.
Chen Tai was only a Minor Gang Leader of the Cao Gang, and their jurisdictions did not overlap. Li Lei only needed to handle the matter impartially.
“A-Zu, take these one hundred silver dollars in silver notes. Bring two brothers and make A-Xing's funeral grand and proper.”
“A-Wei, and the rest of you, come with me to Xinglong Street and demand justice!”
Chen Tai glanced at Zhou Wei in the distance, a tall man built like a black bear.
When it came to fighting, Zhou Wei, who had reached Minor Achievement in Strength Training like Chen Xing, was Chen Tai's strongest man.
However, because of Chen Tai's relationship with Chen Xing, Zhou Wei had always kept a low profile and had never competed with Chen Xing for the limelight.
Now that Chen Xing was dead, he had become the undisputed Double-Flower Red Staff of Rongsheng Street!
“Yes, Boss!”
Zhou Wei nodded at this.
Chen Tai arrived quickly and left just as quickly.
Before long, he led a group of underlings to Xinglong Street to cause trouble for Gao Shengqiang.
As for the outcome, Jiang Wangzu did not care in the slightest.
He watched others raise lofty towers.
He watched others feast and entertain their guests.
He watched others' towers collapse.
What did that have to do with him?
The two fellows Jiang Wangzu left behind were Ma Gan and Blackhide. Both were Cao Gang Low-Level Ruffians.
Like his predecessor, they were marginal figures under Chen Tai.
However, ever since Jiang Wangzu had transmigrated and become the conspicuous figure of Xinglong Street, he had, in a sense, received Chen Tai's “favor.”
At least, that was how it appeared to Ma Gan and Blackhide.
“Brother Jiang!”
Ma Gan and Blackhide called out to Jiang Wangzu with great respect.
“Come on, let's find that whatever-his-name-is minor underling!”
Jiang Wangzu nodded, counting it as a greeting.
“Brother Jiang, his name is Luo Shiqi. He is the Corpse Burner!”
Ma Gan and Blackhide carried Chen Xing's corpse as they followed Jiang Wangzu closely.
Since this world possessed supernatural powers, strange and bizarre events occurred.
Many people died violent deaths at Longjiang Wharf. If their bodies went into a mass grave, they might undergo Corpse Transformation and become Corpse Puppets that brought disaster upon the living.
For such victims of violent death, the best solution was to have a corpse burner cremate them.
For people of this era, who believed that the dead should rest in peace after burial, this was an immense shock.
Was this the decline of morality, or the distortion of human nature?
Cough, cough, cough!
But there was nothing they could do.
These victims of violent death were highly prone to Corpse Transformation. Once it occurred, their closest relatives would suffer first.
Thus, no matter how reluctant their families were, they could only endure the pain of watching a familiar person turn into a heap of ashes inside the Corpse-Burning Furnace.
A Corpse Burner was also a special profession, open only to someone with an exceptionally hard fate and birth chart.
If an ordinary person took up this work, Yin Sha would enter their body within ten days to half a month, causing death and spiritual ruin.
After Entering the Profession and mastering its secrets, one could acquire methods to prevent Yin Sha from entering the body and even gain numerous unexpected abilities.
There are three hundred and sixty trades, and every trade can lead to the heavens.
A Corpse Burner who mastered the secrets of the profession was a terrifying existence.
The Old Qin Li Lei mentioned was such a Corpse Burner.
Even ordinary Corpse Burners who had Entered the Profession and mastered its secrets rarely stayed in the trade for more than ten years.
Old Qin had entered the profession in middle age and worked at it for thirty years.
Clearly, his cultivation was far from ordinary.
Yet even someone like that had died.
And he had died while stitching a corpse.
What kind of corpse had he stitched?
The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became!
Moreover, Li Lei had said that Luo Shiqi's skill was no weaker than Old Qin's, which piqued Jiang Wangzu's interest.
Nine Corpse-Burning Houses stood along the Longjiang River, but only three could handle special corpses.
The other six could only handle the corpses of people who had died violent deaths but had not yet undergone Corpse Transformation.
Chen Xing's corpse, however, was an exception.
Although Jiang Wangzu had beaten him to death, Chen Xing was still a victim of violent death.
Yet Jiang Wangzu had thrown him into the Longjiang, where an Exotic Beast ate his Internal Organs and brain matter, drained his blood, and left Exotic Beast aura clinging to his body.
If left unattended, he would certainly undergo Corpse Transformation!
Jiang Wangzu found Luo Shiqi at the seventh corpse-burning house beside the Longjiang.
He was an ordinary-looking young man, the sort who vanished into a crowd.
He was of average build, and a grayish-white sheen covered both his hands.
His face was pale, making him look like a Vampire lurking in the shadows.
“Boss, we need a cremation!”
Jiang Wangzu glanced at Luo Shiqi and spoke.
“Ten silver dollars!”
Luo Shiqi lifted the white cloth covering Chen Xing's body, glanced at the corpse, and furrowed his brow.
“Ten silver dollars?”
Jiang Wangzu was stunned. He had not expected cremation to cost so much.
“An ordinary corpse costs one silver dollar.”
“This corpse belonged to a Martial Artist who had Entered the Profession, and Exotic Beast aura has tainted it. Corpse energy has accumulated within it.”
“If I do not intervene, it will undergo corpse transformation after midnight tonight.”
“Whether you burn it or not is up to you!”
Luo Shiqi studied Jiang Wangzu for several seconds before offering a brief explanation.
“I never said I wouldn't burn it.”
“You two, carry Brother Xing's body into the morgue.”
Jiang Wangzu spoke to Ma Gan and Blackhide.
Then he studied Luo Shiqi for a few more moments. After Ma Gan and Blackhide had gone a distance away, he asked:
“What exactly is the Exotic Beast at Longjiang Wharf that you mentioned?”
“You can understand it as a demon beast, an evil fiend, or an aberrant creature.”
“As for the one at Longjiang Wharf, it should be a water kui. Its cultivation is not shallow, so you would do well to stay away from it!”
“It... has set its sights on you!”
Luo Shiqi said.
He could smell the aura of the exotic beast shuixiao on Jiang Wangzu.
That meant this Exotic Beast Shuixiao had targeted Jiang Wangzu!
As for why the exotic beast shuixiao had targeted Jiang Wangzu...
It was probably because of the extraordinarily abundant Yang Energy within him!